December 6, the day of the Spanish Constitution, made headlines in the Euskadi newspapers with the campaign of Ernai, the Sortu youth organization, against Spanish symbols. And also a carousel of political evaluations during a festive day.
In the case of Ernai, who this week attacked the headquarters of the Basque PP, in Bilbao, or overthrew an Osborne bull in southern Alava, he removed the Spanish flag from several buildings, including the Legislative Assembly of Gernika. In addition, graffiti was created with the motto “Gurea, ikurriña”. The Office of the Provincial Parliament of Biscay issued a “condemnation” signed by the PNV, the PSE-EE and Podemos, but not by EH Bildu. The PP also joined the complaint. “They attacked a space which symbolizes the popular sovereignty of Biscay and which houses the Gernika tree, a universal emblem of freedom, democracy and peace of the Basque people,” defended the General Assemblies.
On a more political level, the spokesperson for the PNV in the Congress of Deputies, Maribel Vaquero, insisted this Saturday on the fact that “bilaterality must mark the relationship between the Basque and Spanish governments” and asked the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to give “the necessary blow” for compliance with the Statute of Gernika.
On the occasion of the celebration of the 47th anniversary of the Constitution, Vaquero criticized the fact that the state “maintains the main challenges and deficits.” After recalling that the nationalist formation had abstained in the 1978 vote, Vaquero lamented that “nearly five decades later, the lack of recognition of nations within the State remains”. EGI, the youth of the PNV, directly rejected the constitutional framework on its social networks. This Saturday was a “foreign” party and they demanded “independence”.
For her part, the spokesperson for EH Bildu, Mertxe Aizpurua, warned that “progressing towards the recognition of plurinationality and democratic regeneration at all levels of the State necessarily implies courage and conviction, without flirting with PP and Vox, neither by action nor by omission, neither in Madrid nor in Euskal Herria”. The coalition “has nothing to celebrate” on December 6, he added.
For her part, Amaya Fernández, president of the PP of Biscay, regretted that “defending the Constitution” is today “a revolutionary act although it is synonymous and symbol of coexistence, freedom and the pillar on which the Basque Statute and formality are based.